World Mental Health Day: 4-Step 'Wait' Campaign Launches To Help People Feeling Suicidal
Oct 10, 2019
It’s hard to know what to do if you or someone you care about is feeling suicidal, but a new four-step campaign aims to help. The Mental Health Foundation is launching the WAIT approach, which is based on four pieces of advice to help prevent people taking their own lives.Of course, these snippets of advice are just the first step – but they may help start life-saving conversations: Watch: Look out for signs of distress and uncharacteristic behaviour such as withdrawing from contact with other people, excessive quietness, irritability, uncharacteristic outbursts and talking about death or suicide.Ask: Are you having suicidal thoughts? You might worry that asking about suicide will put the idea into someone’s head.
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